SHELL LIFE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BRITISH MOLLUSCA
Written by Edward Step.
Stock no. 1828841
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1901. Almost very good condition.

The Library of Natural History Romance. Brown decorative cloth, gilt titles. B/w plates and illustrations. 414 pages including index. Top edge gilt. Shelf wear & rubbing to spine. Corners lightly worn. Contemporary name & date in ink to front pastedown. Front joint starting to crack. Text block browned with some foxing. Some hinges pulled but binding is tight. Some scattered foxing to contents. Some margin doodles in pencil (neat). All plates are present.

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SEASHELLS OF EASTERN ARABIA
Written by Donald Bosch; S. Peter Dance; Robert G. Moolenbeek; P. Graham Oliver.
Stock no. 1827839
Published by Motivate Publishing. 2008. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The seashells of Oman and the Arabian Gulf. More than a thousand species described in non-technical language and illustrated by original colour photographs, scanning-electron-microscope images and line drawings. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 9781873544648. Reprint. Top & tail of spine lightly bent (shelf wear). Corners of boards bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed and a little grubby with a small mark left by a label that has been removed to rear panel.

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A HISTORY OF BRITISH MOLLUSCA, AND THEIR SHELLS (4 VOLUMES)
Written by Edward Forbes; Sylvanus Hanley.
Stock no. 2133307
Published by John Van Voorst. 1st 1853. Almost very good condition.

Leather spines and corners. Maroon title blocks to spines, gilt titles. Marbled outer page edges and endpapers. 203 hand-coloured plates. Bookplates of 'The Wheelton hind Collection 1920' to front pastedown of each book. Rear join at rear of Volume 1 (on outside); leather has split, but still holding together well. Some scuffs and chips of leather spines and corners. Foxing to prelims of books; some margin marks; page browning. Hand-coloured illustrations are still nice and bright.

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CARIBBEAN SEASHELLS
Written by Germaine L. Warmke; R. Tucker Abbott.
Stock no. 1818337
Published by Livingston Publishing Company. 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A guide to the Marine Mollusks of Puerto Rico and other West Indian Islands, Bermuda and the Lower Florida Keys. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles and palm vignettes. Colour and b/w photos. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0870980041. Third printing. Corners rubbed. Text block grubby. Browning to endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed.

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ILLUSTRATED INDEX OF BRITISH SHELLS
Written by G.B. Sowerby. Illustrated by G.B. Sowerby.
Stock no. 1208607
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 2nd 1887. Almost very good condition.

Containing Figures Of All The Recent Species, With Names and Other Information. Habits and localities, range of depth of marine species and comparative abundance. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 26 tissue-guarded hand-coloured plates depicting 668 species. Red cloth, gilt title to front cover, embossed decorative borders to covers. All edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped and worn with small tear in cloth at base of spine. Covers darkened at edges and on spine. Front hinge cracked. Inscription in ink on verso of front endpaper. All plates present. One tissue guard detached. Foxing to tissue guards. Plates clean except for a very few which have minor foxing at the edges. A bright copy.

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